Members of the New People's Army capture Security Officer 2 Juan Salazar and SO2 Feliciano Polan
RESCUE MISSION. Members of the New People's Army rescue their comrades set for trial in Lianga, Surigao del Sur. Filep hoto by Karlos Manlupig/Rappler
Communist rebels captured two personnel of the Bureau of Jail Management and Penology (BJMP) during a bid to rescue comrades who were set to attend a hearing in Lianga, Surigao del Sur, on Monday morning, April 27.
Captain Joe
Patrick Martinez, deputy chief of the 4th Infantry Division's Public Affairs
Office, said at least 3 people were wounded in the process – a suspected
communist leader and two other BJMP personnel.
Maritinez said
members of BJMP-Surigao del Sur were transporting two suspected communist
leaders from Tandag
City for a hearing at the
Regional Trial Court in Lianga when they were fired upon by NPA rebels in
Barangay Amontay in Marihatag town at around 7:45 am on Monday.
The detainees
were identified as Robert Rivas and Jojean Alameda who were arrested in a
checkpoint in Diatagon, Lianga, on February 13. Rivas was among those hurt in
the firefight.
Rivas and the
other two wounded BJMP personnel were brought to the Adela Serra Ty Memorial
Hospital in Tandag
City .
Around the same
time, a separate group of communist guerrillas flagged down and torched a
container van owned by DOLE Stanfilco along the highway of Sitio Kawilan in
Barangay Antipolo, which is 10 kilometers away from the scene of the other
incident.
Surigao del Sur
is among the hotspots that are in the crosshairs of military counterinsurgency
operations.
http://www.rappler.com/nation/91361-npa-seize-jail-officials-surigao
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